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.
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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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