Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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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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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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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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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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