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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.

Lucretius

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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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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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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Await Built Old Way
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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.

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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.

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