From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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.
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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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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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It’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.
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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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