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

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  Water, Stones, Force

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing comes from nothing.

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  Cause And Effect

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.24, Indiana University Press

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

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  Mind, Decay, Body

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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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• 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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• Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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  Preparation, Complexity

  De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

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• True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

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  Lying, Mind, Atheism

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

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  Doe, Admire, Mankind

  Lucretius (2007). “The Nature of Things”, p.96, Penguin UK

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• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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

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  Earth, Sprung

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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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• 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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