Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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