All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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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 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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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