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Great 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…
- Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
- The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
- It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
- There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
- 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…
- It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
- It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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