Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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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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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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