Lucretius quotes

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. (Lucretius)
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. View quote
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. View quote
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Nothing can be produced from nothing. View quote
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. View quote
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Life is one long struggle in the dark. View quote
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. View quote
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. View quote
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. View quote
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. View quote
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared. (Lucretius)
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye. View quote
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Truths kindle light for truths. View quote
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. View quote
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. View quote
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. View quote
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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? View quote
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began. View quote
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Never trust her at any time, when the calm sea shows her false alluring smile. View quote
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease. View quote
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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature. (Lucretius)
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher. View quote
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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. View quote
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A thing therefore never returns to nothing. View quote
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We are all sprung from a heavenly seed. View quote
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