The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSFor fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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