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.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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