The sum total of all sums total is eternal. Lucretius More Quotes by Lucretius More Quotes From Lucretius 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 atheismfightingmind Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. Lucretius should-havebloworder Assuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring. Lucretius rocksatheismair If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions. Lucretius mothernamessea True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. Lucretius atheismmindlying Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre. Lucretius painsuicideinsanity Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion. Lucretius intercourseharmpassion For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt. Lucretius voidwanderdoubt Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another. Lucretius poisonfoodscience These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always. Lucretius senseslastsfirsts Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power. Lucretius flamesmeanthinking Nothing comes from nothing. Lucretius cause-and-effect Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. Lucretius too-muchmen And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. Lucretius atheismgivenlife-is Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness. Lucretius atheismlightdarkness The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. Lucretius lightcloudswind There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa) Lucretius positive-atheismatheismworld How is it that the sky feeds the stars? Lucretius starssky Human life lay foul before men's eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion's weight. Lucretius dusteyemen Continual dropping wears away a stone. Lucretius droppingstones
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