Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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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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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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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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