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.
LUCRETIUSThe 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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