The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
More Lucretius Quotes
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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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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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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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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