Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSMeantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSRest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSFor fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUSGlobed 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.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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