So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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.
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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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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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