Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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