Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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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