We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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