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

  Lucretius

  Earth, Sprung

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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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• 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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• Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

  Lucretius

  Religious, Wicked, Action

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• There is no place in nature for extinction.

  Lucretius

  Nature, Extinction

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• Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

  Lucretius

  Violence, Return, Injury

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1924). “De rerum natura”

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• We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

  Lucretius

  Air, Void, Bears

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• Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

  Lucretius

  Men, Order, Mind

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• The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

  Lucretius

  Reality, Mask, Torn

  "De Rerum Natura". III. 58,

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• It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

  Lucretius

  Easier, Snares

  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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• 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.

  Lucretius

  Spring, Order, Infinite Time

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

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• Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

  Lucretius

  Sea, Watches, Shore

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• Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

  Lucretius

  Our World, Air, Other Worlds

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Rolfe Humphries (1968). “The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus”, p.82, Indiana University Press

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• Our life must once have end; in vain we fly
  From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

  Lucretius

  Life, Fate, Vain

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• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Heart, Delight

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• Such crimes has superstition caused.

  Lucretius

  Superstitions, Crime

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• There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

  Lucretius

  Atheism, World, Positive Atheism

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• And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

  Lucretius

  Atheism, Life Is, Given

  'De Rerum Natura' bk. 3, l. 971

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• The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

  Lucretius

  Medicine, Sick, Mind

  On the Nature of Things III. 510

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• [N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

  Lucretius

  Aids, Born, One Thing

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• Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

  Lucretius

  Gratitude, Men, Wind

  "On the Nature of Things" by Lucretius, Book II, lines 1 - 4 (tr. Rouse),

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

  Lucretius

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

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• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Mind, Dungeons

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• Thus the sum
  Forever is replenished, and we live
  As mortals by eternal give and take.
  The nations wax, the nations wane away;
  In a brief space the generations pass,
  And like to runners hand the lamp of life
  One unto other.

  Lucretius

  Hands, Space, Giving

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.214, Delphi Classics

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

  Lucretius

  Men, Long, Atheism

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