Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUSThe dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LUCRETIUSWe 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.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSForbear 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.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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