Lucretius Quotes

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• Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

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

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  Earth, Firsts

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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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• Nothing can be created out of nothing.

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  Preparation, Complexity

  De Rerum Natura bk. 1, l. 155

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

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  Water, Stones, Force

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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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• What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

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  Return Back, Heaven, Earth

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, II. 999,

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• Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology 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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• It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

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  Spring, Order, Infinite Time

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.41, Psychology Press

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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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• 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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• 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?

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  Bears, Want, Humans

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• Truths kindle light for truths.

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  Light, Kindles

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.52

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

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

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• For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.

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  Children, Dark, Law

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 55 - 61 (tr. Rouse),

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• Only religion can lead to such evil.

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  Evil, Religion

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

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  Men, Understanding, Mind

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