All Lucretius Quotes
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
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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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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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