How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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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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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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?
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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