There is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
More Lucretius Quotes
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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