Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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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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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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