The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSUnder 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.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSFor out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSWe 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.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSIf 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.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSAll nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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