Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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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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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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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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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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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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