When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUSTo 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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 body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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