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.
LUCRETIUSNo 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.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSUnder what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
LUCRETIUSWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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