It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSIf 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.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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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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I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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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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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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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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