Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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