Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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