Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
More Lucretius Quotes
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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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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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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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