Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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