Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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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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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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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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