Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSGlobed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
More Lucretius Quotes
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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