There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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 drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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 highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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 things obey fixed laws.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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