The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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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.
LucretiusLucretius The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LucretiusLucretius The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LucretiusLucretius You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LucretiusLucretius What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LucretiusLucretius Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LucretiusLucretius All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LucretiusLucretius So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LucretiusLucretius And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LucretiusLucretius Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LucretiusLucretius We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LucretiusLucretius There can be no centre in infinity.
LucretiusLucretius To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LucretiusLucretius How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LucretiusLucretius
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