These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Under 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.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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