... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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.
- 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. - 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life is one long struggle in the dark. - Lucretius
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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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