Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSIf 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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