Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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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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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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