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.
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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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 sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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