Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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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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All things obey fixed laws.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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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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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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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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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