True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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