What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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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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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