A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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