It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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