What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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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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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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Globed 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.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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