The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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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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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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