It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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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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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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