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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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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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The 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.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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