It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
More Lucretius Quotes
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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