To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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