Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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