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.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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