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.
LUCRETIUSFor out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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