Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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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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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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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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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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