What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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