It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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