And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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