Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LucretiusLucretius Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LucretiusLucretius You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LucretiusLucretius Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LucretiusLucretius Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LucretiusLucretius The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LucretiusLucretius Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LucretiusLucretius Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LucretiusLucretius Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LucretiusLucretius These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LucretiusLucretius It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LucretiusLucretius Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LucretiusLucretius From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LucretiusLucretius It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LucretiusLucretius Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LucretiusLucretius The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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