Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
More Lucretius Quotes
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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