Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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