We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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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Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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