Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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 life is a struggle in the dark.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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