Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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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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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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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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Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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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