There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
More Lucretius Quotes
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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