Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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