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.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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 water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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