Lucretius quote: Yet a little while, and (the happy hour)

“For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals.”

Real Soul Moments Body Born Animal Divine Birth Shade Pits Appointments Soul And Body Pluto Aliases

Author:Lucretius

“If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.”

Ifs Men Way Term Saws Trouble Prophet Intimidation Finding Strength Hocus Pocus

Author:Lucretius

“Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.”

Soul Body Pain Pleasure Accepting Down And Pins

Author:Socrates

“The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.”

Drink Hunger Appetite Thirst Seasoning

Author:Socrates

“I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.”

Believe I Believe Clear Conscience Seeking Clear Conscience

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.”

Men Born Birth All Things Rose Empires Fearful Cupid

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges - waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That's just the nature of life.”

Years Waiting Studios My Time

Author:Amy Grant

“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.”

Ends Desire Hate Calm Extremes Flood Tempest Hottest

Author:Socrates

“Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.”

Shows Flattery Armor

Author:Socrates

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