The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSWe 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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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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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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