Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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