All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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