Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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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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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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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