We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSNo 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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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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Globed 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.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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