From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSThus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet 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 it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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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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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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