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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. — Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce. — Lucretius

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it. — Lucretius

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa) — Lucretius

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. — Lucretius

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles. — Lucretius

For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds
is instant death of that which was before. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. — Lucretius

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. — Lucretius

One Man's food is another Man's Poison — Lucretius

Victory puts us on a level with heaven. — Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt. — Lucretius

All life is a struggle in the dark. — Lucretius

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun. — Lucretius

To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. — Lucretius

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. — Lucretius

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. — Lucretius

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt. — Lucretius

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. — Lucretius

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void
In which they're set, and where they're moved around. — Lucretius

Thus, then, the All that is is limited
In no one region of its onward paths,
For then 'tmust have forever its beyond. — Lucretius

Bodies, again,
Are partly primal germs of things, and partly
Unions deriving from the primal germs. — Lucretius

Rather, there must be seeds, unseen, combined 895 in many ways and common to many things. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones. — Titus Lucretius Carus

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. — Lucretius

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. — Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Titus Lucretius Carus

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. — Lucretius

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment. — Lucretius

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die. — Lucretius

Continual dropping wears away a stone. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease. — Lucretius

Confess then, naught from nothing can become,
Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow,
Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air. — Lucretius

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. — Lucretius

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another. — Lucretius

No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through — Lucretius

All things keep on in everlasting motion,
Out of the infinite come the particles,
Speeding above, below, in endless dance. — Lucretius

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net. — Lucretius

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. — Lucretius

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop. — Lucretius

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it. — Lucretius

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. — Lucretius

Fear is the mother of all gods. — Lucretius

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius

We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. — Lucretius

If the world is the product of nothing but natural forces and natural law, divine intervention is impossible. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Matter's basic elements are solid,
Completely so, and that they fly through time
Invincible, indestructible for ever. — Titus Lucretius Carus

And so, through the blank of void, all things must fall at equal speed, though not of equal weight. — Titus Lucretius Carus

For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery. — Robert Frost

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them. — Lucretius

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another. — Lucretius

So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge. — Titus Lucretius Carus

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. — Lucretius

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains — Lucretius

He does not see that all things slowly weaken and fall to ruin,2 worn out by ages past. — Titus Lucretius Carus

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. — Lucretius

Lucretius and Cicero testify to the view that people dream about the things that concern them in waking life. — Sigmund Freud

There is no place in nature for extinction. — Lucretius

Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Such heinous acts could superstition prompt.12 — Titus Lucretius Carus

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. — Lucretius

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. — Lucretius

Truths kindle light for truths. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace. — Lucretius

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!] — Lucretius

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. — Lucretius

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. — Lucretius

Falling drops will at last wear away stone. — Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. — Lucretius

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself. — Titus Lucretius Carus

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. — Lucretius

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea. — Lucretius

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less. — Lucretius

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal. — Lucretius

Nothing can be created out of nothing. — Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love. — Lucretius

Tears for the mourners who are left behind
Peace everlasting for the quiet dead. — Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil. — Lucretius

Gently touching with the charm of poetry. — Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark. — Titus Lucretius Carus

In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated. — Lucretius

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. — Lucretius

The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye. — Lucretius

Lucretius wants to write the poem of matter, but he warns us from the start that the reality of matter is that it's made of invisible particles. He — Italo Calvino

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. — Lucretius

These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always. — Lucretius

The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another. — Titus Lucretius Carus

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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born. — Lucretius