Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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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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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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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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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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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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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