Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself. - Lucretius
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
- Lucretius
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop. - Lucretius
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. - Lucretius
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone. - Lucretius
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
Life is one long struggle in the dark. - Lucretius
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile. - Lucretius
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. - Lucretius
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. - Lucretius
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. - Lucretius
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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