Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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 the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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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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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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