We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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