From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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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Forbear 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.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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