All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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 first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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