O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LucretiusLucretius Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LucretiusLucretius Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LucretiusLucretius Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LucretiusLucretius How many evils have flowed from religion.
LucretiusLucretius How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LucretiusLucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LucretiusLucretius How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LucretiusLucretius True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LucretiusLucretius Only religion can lead to such evil.
LucretiusLucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LucretiusLucretius Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LucretiusLucretius By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LucretiusLucretius Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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