Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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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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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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