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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

  Lucretius

  Philosophy, Matter, Seeds

  "De Rerum Natura". Book I, line 206,

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• And since the mind is of a man one part,
  Which in one fixed place remains, like ears,
  And eyes, and every sense which pilots life;
  And just as hand, or eye, or nose, apart,
  Severed from us, can neither feel nor be,
  But in the least of time is left to rot,
  Thus mind alone can never be, without
  The body and the man himself, which seems,
  As 'twere the vessel of the same- or aught
  Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined:
  Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Lucretius, “Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal”

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• Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

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  Fall, Stones, Lasts

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• All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists
  Of twain of things: of bodies and of void
  In which they're set, and where they're moved around.

  Lucretius

  Self, Body, Void

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.192, Delphi Classics

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• Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Atheism

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• Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

  Lucretius

  Evil, Wickedness, Deeds

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation”

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• 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 our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

  Lucretius

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

  Lucretius

  Heaven, Victory, Literature

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• Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

  Lucretius

  Fighting, Mind, Atheism

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• Now come: that thou mayst able be to know
  That minds and the light souls of all that live
  Have mortal birth and death, I will go on
  Verses to build meet for thy rule of life,
  Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.

  Lucretius

  Sweet, Light, Long

  Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

  Lucretius

  Grandma, Space, Grandpa

  "De rerum natura".

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• All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.

  Lucretius

  Wall, World, Thunder

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.250

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• Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.

  Lucretius

  Fall, Atheism, Atoms

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

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• If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

  Lucretius

  Men, Saws, Hocus Pocus

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• ... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

  Lucretius

  Children, Halloween, Dark

  Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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• It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

  Lucretius

  Ocean, Wind, Sea

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• For out of doubt
  In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself
  That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs
  Incipient motions are diffused.

  Lucretius

  Men, Giving, Doubt

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

  Lucretius

  Poetry, Touching, Charm

  "De Rerum Natura". IV. 9,

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• Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

  Lucretius

  Past, Men, Scene

  "De Rerum Natura". IV, 1,182,

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• 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 bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

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  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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  Flower, Literature, Bitterness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
  [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
  Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
  Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

  Lucretius

  Strong, Mind, Jam

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• How many evils has religion caused!
  [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

  Lucretius

  Evil, Religion

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• You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

  Lucretius

  Death, Generations, May

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1866). “T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex”, p.83

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• The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

  Lucretius

  Perseverance, Fall, Water

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