It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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