Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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