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From Quotes by Lucretius
- 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…
- From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
- Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
- From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
- From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
- So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for…
- From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
- Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
- Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they…
- Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed…
- It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
- What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
- Nothing comes from nothing.
- 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…
- Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
- 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.
- It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
- We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
- Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death
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