What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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