And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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