Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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