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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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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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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