Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
Interpretation
Victory elevates our spirit and connects us with the divine.
This quote by Lucretius suggests that achieving victory brings us a profound sense of fulfillment and elevated joy, akin to the blissful state often associated with the divine or heavenly realm. It implies that success not only enhances our personal lives but also aligns us with something greater than ourselves, creating a deeper sense of purpose and happiness.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about achieving goals.
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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.
Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.
The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.
I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.
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