All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LucretiusLucretius Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LucretiusLucretius Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LucretiusLucretius One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LucretiusLucretius No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LucretiusLucretius Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LucretiusLucretius Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LucretiusLucretius Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LucretiusLucretius How many evils have flowed from religion.
LucretiusLucretius How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LucretiusLucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LucretiusLucretius How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LucretiusLucretius True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LucretiusLucretius The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LucretiusLucretius The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LucretiusLucretius Only religion can lead to such evil.
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