Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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