Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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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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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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No 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.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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