We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
More Lucretius Quotes
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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