From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS
LUCRETIUS
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Lucretius144 quotes“From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.”
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LucretiusLucretius True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LucretiusLucretius The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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LucretiusLucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LucretiusLucretius Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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