Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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