The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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