"It is a pleasure for to sit at……" — Lucretius

"It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be."

— Lucretius

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.
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…
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
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…
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…
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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