How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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