There is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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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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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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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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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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