No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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