Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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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