The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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