Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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