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.
LUCRETIUSIt is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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