To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Why 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?
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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