It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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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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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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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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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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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