In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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