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“Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.”

Quote by Lucretius

Book:Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

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Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

This book is the third installment in the Stoic Six Pack series, which delves into the philosophical debates between Stoicism and Epicureanism through an engaging narrative. The story likely presents a complex interplay of ideas and characters, offering readers a glimpse into the contrasting worldviews of these ancient philosophical schools. more

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Lucretius (99 BC - 55 BC) was a renowned Greek Roman poet, hailed as the peak of Greek Roman philosophical poetry. His work 'On the Nature of Things' presented the natural philosophical ideas of the Greek philosopher Democritus in poetic form, which had a profound impact on later generations. more

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.”

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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

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Book:Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

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“A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow To the wide waters, touch to corporal things, Intangibility to the viewless void.”

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“And thus thou canst remark that every act At bottom exists not of itself, nor is As body is, nor has like name with void; But rather of sort more fitly to be called An accident of body, and of place Wherein all things go on.”

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Book:Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

Source: Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans

“Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.”

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Book:On the Nature of Things

Source: On the Nature of Things

“But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made Completely solid, hither and thither fly Forevermore unconquered through all time, Now come, and whether to the sum of them There be a limit or be none, for thee Let us unfold; likewise what has been found To be the wide inane, or room, or space Wherein all things soever do go on, Let us examine if it finite be All and entire, or reach unmeasured round And downward an illimitable profound.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)

“Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.”

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Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)