It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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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 sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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