Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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 greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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