One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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