No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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 drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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