Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
More Lucretius Quotes
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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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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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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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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