For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSFear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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