Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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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.
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