You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSIf God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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