The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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.
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