Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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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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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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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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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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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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