The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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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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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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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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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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