Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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If 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.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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