Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
More Lucretius Quotes
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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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.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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