Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSFor out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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.
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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.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern 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, reality remains.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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