Lucretius Quotes

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• Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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  World, States, Whole

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.159, Psychology Press

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

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  Earth, Firsts

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

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  Sea, Calm, Never Trust

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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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• 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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• 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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• If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

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  Doe, Stones, Heavy

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

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  Strength, Mind, Decay

  "De Rerum Natura". III. 446,

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• 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.

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  Pits, Way, Ruins

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• The sum of all sums is eternity.

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  Eternity

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

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  Mother, Atheist, Atheism

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

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  Men, Wickedness, Literature

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

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  God, Religious, Accepting

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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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• 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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• 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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• All things obey fixed laws.

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  Law, Fixed, All Things

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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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