We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSWhat 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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