We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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