A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
LucretiusLucretius How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LucretiusLucretius It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LucretiusLucretius How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LucretiusLucretius True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LucretiusLucretius Only religion can lead to such evil.
LucretiusLucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LucretiusLucretius Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LucretiusLucretius By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LucretiusLucretius Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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LemmyLemmy My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.
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