There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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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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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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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There is so much wrong with the world.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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