Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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