Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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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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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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