Quotes from book
De rerum natura

LucretiusOriginal title De rerum natura (Latin)
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“If you well apprehend and keep in mind these things, nature free at once and rid of her haughty lords is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods.”

Lucretius book De rerum natura

De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original: (la) Quae bene cognita si teneas, natura videtur
Libera continuo, dominis privata superbis,
ipsa sua per se sponte omnia dis agere expers.

Book II, lines 1090–1092 (tr. Munro)

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