The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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