Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
More Lucretius Quotes
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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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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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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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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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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