Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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