True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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