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.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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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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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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