Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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