The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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