From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSContinual dropping wears away a stone.
More Lucretius Quotes
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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