The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
More Lucretius Quotes
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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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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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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