Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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