One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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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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