Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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