Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Rest, 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.
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