Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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If 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.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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