Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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