We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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