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.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Continual dropping wears away 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.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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