How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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