Lucretius Quotes

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• All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
• So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
• No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By…
• For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
• In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
• 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…
• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
• From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
• The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
• Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
• The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
• At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to…
• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
• The sum of all sums is eternity.
• Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
• Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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