It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
More Lucretius Quotes
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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 sum of all sums is eternity.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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