Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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