Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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