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.
LUCRETIUSThose 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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