Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Thus 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.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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