The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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 water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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