So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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