Lucretius Quotes about Past

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Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do

Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

Lucretius

Death, Past, Leaving

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Lucretius

Past, Evil, Atheism

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

Science, Past, Infinite Time

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