Nothing can be created out of nothing. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius One Man's food is another Man's Poison Lucretius another-manpoisonmen Bodies, again, Lucretius germsunionsbody We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays. Lucretius decaybodymind From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. Lucretius delightflowerheart Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself. Lucretius stateswholeworld The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it. Lucretius atheismmeanreligion See with what force yon river's crystal stream Lucretius riversmenscience The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe). Lucretius eternaluniverseeternity 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 leavingdarknessmen A falling drop at last will carve a stone. Lucretius lastsstonesfall 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 oceanseawind There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less. Lucretius admiremankinddoe The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. Lucretius infantnewbornwailing And since the mind is of a man one part, Lucretius eyemenhands 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 sciencebelievehands Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. Lucretius elementsreturnphilosophy Fear is the mother of all gods. Lucretius atheistmotherreligion What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others Lucretius poisonfoodmen Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. Lucretius scenemenpast Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness! Lucretius infinite-timesciencepast
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