Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSIt’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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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 dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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