Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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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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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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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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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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