The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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