It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSIt’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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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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No 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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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