So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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