The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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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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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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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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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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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