Lucretius
Quotes by Lucretius
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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.
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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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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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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.
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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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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Whenever a thing changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life.
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In a brief space the generations of living beings are changed and like runners pass on the torches of life.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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What can give us surer knowledge than our senses? With what else can we better distinguish the true from the false?
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