From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSWhy dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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