The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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