To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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