Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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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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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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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