For 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.
LUCRETIUSThe 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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