The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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