Sweet Flowers Quotes by Lucretius

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• All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
• So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
• No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and…
• For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
• In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
• Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not…
• Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
• 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,…
• The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
• Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

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