It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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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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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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