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Letter "L" » Lucretius Quotes
«Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.»
«It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another»
«Do you not see even stones yield to the power of time, lofty towers fall to decay, and the rocks molder away? Temples and statues of the gods go to ruin, nor can the gods themselves prolong their date or get reprieve from fate»
Author: Lucretius
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«In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.»
«The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.»
Author: Lucretius
«And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.»
«Life is one long struggle in the dark.»
Author: Lucretius
«The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life»
«It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and mo»
«What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth»
Author: Lucretius
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