If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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