Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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So much wrong could religion induce.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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