One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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For 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.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet 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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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