Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSNo 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Those 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.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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 water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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