No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
More Lucretius Quotes
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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