To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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