Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LucretiusLucretius Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LucretiusLucretius 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?
LucretiusLucretius What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LucretiusLucretius Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LucretiusLucretius Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LucretiusLucretius For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LucretiusLucretius Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LucretiusLucretius Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LucretiusLucretius So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LucretiusLucretius 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.
LucretiusLucretius It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LucretiusLucretius Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LucretiusLucretius The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LucretiusLucretius Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LucretiusLucretius For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LucretiusLucretius
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