How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSI 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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