Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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