There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Forbear 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.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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All 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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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