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LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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