Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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