A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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