From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
More Lucretius Quotes
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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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All things obey fixed laws.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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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