Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSNo single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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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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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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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