Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUSGlobed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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 sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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