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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop (Lucretius Quotes)
Fear is the mother of all gods (Lucretius Quotes)
Only religion can lead to such evil (Lucretius Quotes)
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth (Lucretius Quotes)
A falling drop at last will carve a stone (Lucretius Quotes)
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead (Lucretius Quotes)
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear (Lucretius Quotes)
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life (Lucretius Quotes)
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know (Lucretius Quotes)
... 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 (Lucretius Quotes)
Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring (Lucretius Quotes)
Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. (Lucretius Quotes)
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear? (Lucretius Quotes)
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. (Lucretius Quotes)
...Nature 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. (Lucretius Quotes)
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfections. (Lucretius Quotes)
Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio (Lucretius Quotes)
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling (Lucretius Quotes)
But yet creation’s neither crammed nor blocked About by body: there’s in things a void- Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, Forever searching in the sum of all, And losing faith in these pronouncements mine. (Lucretius Quotes)
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements (Lucretius Quotes)
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it (Lucretius Quotes)
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment (Lucretius Quotes)
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease upon the land, and safely for to see how other folks are tossed on the seas that with the blustering winds turmoiled be (Lucretius Quotes)
From the midst of the fountains of pleasures there rises something of bitterness which torments us amid the very flowers (Lucretius Quotes)
The Gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused (Lucretius Quotes)
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure (Lucretius Quotes)
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from (Lucretius Quotes)
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail (Lucretius Quotes)
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? (Lucretius Quotes)
Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others (Lucretius Quotes)