It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
More Lucretius Quotes
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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The 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.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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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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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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