Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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