Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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