Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
More Lucretius Quotes
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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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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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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