All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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