From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
More Lucretius Quotes
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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