The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSThose 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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