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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers (Lucretius Quotes)
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows (Lucretius Quotes)
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied (Lucretius Quotes)
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles (Lucretius Quotes)
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another (Lucretius Quotes)
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another (Lucretius Quotes)
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net (Lucretius Quotes)
First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal (Lucretius Quotes)
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 (Lucretius Quotes)
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? (Lucretius Quotes)
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal (Lucretius Quotes)
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? (Lucretius Quotes)
Epicurus... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun (Lucretius Quotes)
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused? (Lucretius Quotes)
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 (Lucretius Quotes)
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight (Lucretius Quotes)
Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is (Lucretius Quotes)
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time (Lucretius Quotes)
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another (Lucretius Quotes)
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you (Lucretius Quotes)
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 (Lucretius Quotes)
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 (Lucretius Quotes)
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt (Lucretius Quotes)
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin (Lucretius Quotes)
Fear is the mother of all gods... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods (Lucretius Quotes)
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life (Lucretius Quotes)
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers (Lucretius Quotes)
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before (Lucretius Quotes)
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began (Lucretius Quotes)
... if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods (Lucretius Quotes)