How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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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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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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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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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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