Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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