Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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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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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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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If 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.
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