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.
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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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We 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.
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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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If 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.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Under 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.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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