"There is nothing that exists so great or……" — Lucretius
"There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less."
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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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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
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