When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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