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• Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

  Lucretius

  Mind, Matter, Understood

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book III, lines 830 - 831 (tr. Rouse),

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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.

  Lucretius

  Brother, Hate, Atheism

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

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

  Lucretius

  Past, Evil, Atheism

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

  Lucretius

  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.

  Lucretius

  And Love, Sound, Phrases

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

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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.

  Lucretius

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.167, Psychology Press

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• There can be no centre
  in infinity.

  Lucretius

  Infinity, Centre

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

  Lucretius

  Air, Wind, Should

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

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• All things obey fixed laws.

  Lucretius

  Law, Fixed, All Things

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• Nothing comes from nothing.

  Lucretius

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

  Lucretius

  Mind, Decay, Body

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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.

  Lucretius

  Return Back, Heaven, Earth

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

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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.

  Lucretius

  Men, Leaving, Darkness

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

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

  Lucretius

  Earth, Sprung

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

  Lucretius

  Motivational, Wisdom, Stay Strong

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

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Dust

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

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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.

  Lucretius

  Imperfection, Atoms, Venture

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• Tears for the mourners who are left behind
  Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

  Lucretius

  Tears, Quiet, Left Behind

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• Truths kindle light for truths.

  Lucretius

  Light, Kindles

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

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

  Lucretius

  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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• 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.

  Lucretius

  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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• One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.22, Psychology 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.

  Lucretius

  Odds, Atheism, May

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

  Lucretius

  Creativity, New Beginnings, Eye

  "De rerum natura".

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• One Man's food is another Man's Poison

  Lucretius

  Men, Poison, Another Man

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