Lucretius Quotes

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

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Encouragement, Persistence, Tasks

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Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

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Death, Past, Leaving

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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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Earth, Firsts

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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight.

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Eye, Men, Dust

Lucretius (2011). “On the Nature of Things”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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Rainy Day, Greatest Wealth, Mind

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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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Brother, Hate, Atheism

Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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

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God, Religious, Accepting

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

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Air, Wind, Should

Lucretius, Martin Ferguson Smith (2001). “On the Nature of Things”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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Preparation, Complexity

De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

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

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Earth, Sprung

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

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Water, Stones, Force

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

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Past, Evil, Atheism

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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.

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Heart, Adversity, Reality

"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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

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Light, Lovely, Without You

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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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Sea, Calm, Never Trust

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Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

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Lying, Grief, Responsibility

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

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Life, Given, Lease

De Rerum Natura, bk.3, line 971 (translated by R. E. Latham).

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Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.

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Moving, Blow, Infinite Time

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It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

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Strong, Way, Fool

Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.153, Indiana University Press

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Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

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Odds, Atheism, May

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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

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And Love, Sound, Phrases

Lucretius (2008). “On the Nature of the Universe”, p.90, OUP Oxford

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

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Infinite, Endless, Everlasting

Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.48, Indiana University Press

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

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Discovery, Mind, Body

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

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Creativity, New Beginnings, Eye

"De rerum natura".

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Born: 99 BC
Died: 55 BC
Occupation: Poet
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