The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
More Lucretius Quotes
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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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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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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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There is so much wrong with the world.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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