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.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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When 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.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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