Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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