We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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Globed 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.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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