The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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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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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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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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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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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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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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