If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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