We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
More Lucretius Quotes
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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