Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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