Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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 dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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