The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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