It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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