The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSAll nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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It’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.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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