Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
More Lucretius Quotes
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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