Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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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 men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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 first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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