It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUSIt 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.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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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