Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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