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.
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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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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.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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