Lucretius Quotes

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• Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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  Earth, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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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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• O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

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  Goddess, Charm, Immortal

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.4

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

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  Adversity, Men, Doubt

  Lucretius (2005). “Sensation and Sex”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• Life is one long struggle in the dark.

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  Life, Struggle, Dark

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”

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

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  Greatest Wealth, Soul, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Leaving, Darkness

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 37,

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Imperfection, Atoms, Venture

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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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