"Continual dropping wears away a stone." — Lucretius
"Continual dropping wears away a stone."
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Lucretius
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97 Quotes by Lucretius
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
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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…
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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More Continual Quotes
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold…
— Samuel Butler
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In…
— Marc Chagall
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
— Thomas Paine
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
— Trevor McDonald
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
— John Hughlings Jackson
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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
— George Bernard Shaw
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act,…
— Unknown Author
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
— Tim Ferriss
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