The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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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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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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