The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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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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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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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