Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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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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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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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