These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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