"We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and……" — Lucretius

"We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body."

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97 Quotes by Lucretius

Lucretius has 97 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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