You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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