No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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