Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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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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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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