Lucretius quotes - page 3

So far as it goes, a small thing may give an analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. (Lucretius)
Custom renders love attractive; for that which is struck by oft-repeated blows however lightly, yet after long course of time is overpowered and gives way. See you not too that drops of water falling on rocks after long course of time scoop a hole through these rocks? View quote
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Superstition is now in her turn cast down and trampled underfoot, whilst we by the victory are exalted high as heaven. View quote
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If you well apprehend and keep in mind these things, nature free at once and rid of her haughty lords is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods. View quote
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What once sprung from earth sinks back into the earth. View quote
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The living force of his soul gained the day: on he passed far beyond the flaming walls of the world and traversed throughout in mind and spirit the immeasurable universe. View quote
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For every one feels to what purpose he can use his own powers. Before the horns of a calf appear and sprout from his forehead, he butts with them when angry, and pushes passionately. View quote
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Cease therefore to be dismayed by the mere novelty and so to reject reason from your mind with loathing: weigh the questions rather with keen judgment and if they seem to you to be true, surrender, or if the thing is false, gird yourself to the encounter. View quote
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O pitiable minds of men, O blind intelligences! In what gloom of life, in how great perils is passed all your poor span of time! not to see that all nature barks for is this, that pain be removed away out of the body, and that the mind, kept away from care and fear, enjoy a feeling of delight! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Lucretius)
There is no place in nature for extinction. View quote
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine. View quote
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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. View quote
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. View quote
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Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret. View quote
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Lucretius

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Occupation: Roman Poet
Born: 94 BC
Died: 55 BC
Quotes count: 66
Wikipedia: Lucretius

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