These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
More Lucretius Quotes
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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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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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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