Top 31 Titus Lucretius Carus Quotes
#1. If within wood hide flame and smoke and ash then wood consists of things unlike itself.
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#2. The atoms in it must be used over and over again; thus the death of one thing becomes necessary for the birth of another.
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#3. To begin, this thing he calls "homoeomeria" - take bones: you see, they're made of little bones, 835 wee, tiny ones; and from wee, tiny guts, guts are created; and blood comes into being when lots of little drops of blood foregather.
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#4. Clearly, this never happens, since each thing sprung of its own specific seed and parent, grows always true to type, as we observe. The process, of course, must follow clear-cut laws.
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#5. If the world is the product of nothing but natural forces and natural law, divine intervention is impossible.
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#6. Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)
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#7. this terror then and drakness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and the law of nature; the warp whose design we shall begin with this first principle, nothing is ever gotten out of nothing by divine power.
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#8. Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking.
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#9. Matter's basic elements are solid,
Completely so, and that they fly through time
Invincible, indestructible for ever.
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#10. Watch a man in times of adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off.
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#11. To fear death, then, is foolish, since death is the final and complete annihilation of personal identity, the ultimate release from anxiety and pain.
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#12. And in declaring true every theory that does not contravene the evidence of the senses, Epicurus does not blink the fact that the philosopher may arrive at more than one explanation for a given phenomenon - in some cases, even at explanations that are mutually exclusive or contradictory.
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#15. Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.
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#16. Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun.
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#17. The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.
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#18. He does not see that all things slowly weaken and fall to ruin,2 worn out by ages past.
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#19. And so, through the blank of void, all things must fall at equal speed, though not of equal weight.
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#22. Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?
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#23. For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds
is instant death of that which was before.
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#24. Nothing can dwindle to nothing, as Nature restores one thing from the stuff of another, nor does she allow a birth, without a corresponding death.
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#26. Rather, there must be seeds, unseen, combined 895 in many ways and common to many things.
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#27. So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.
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#28. For though I were ignorant of the basic stuff, still, just from heaven's behavior, I would dare affirm, and assert on many other grounds, that gods most certainly never made the world 180 for you and me: it stands too full of flaws.
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#30. Here there is left a tenuous subterfuge, 875 which Anaxagoras seizes: think of things as mixtures of everything, all concealed but one that shows - the one that's mixed in largest measure and close to the surface and placed right at the top.
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#31. Trees don't live in the sky, and clouds don't swim
In the salt seas, and fish don't leap in wheatfields,
Blood isn't found in wood, nor sap in rocks.
By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows
Submits to limit and restrictions.
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