"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare……" — Lucretius
"Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril."
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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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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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The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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