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.
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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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