And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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