All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSRest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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It 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.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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