Quotes Tagged With :lucre

The whole of life but labours in the dark.For just as children tremble and fear allIn the viewless dark,....

Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of....

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others

Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.

Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows....

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious....

The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely spread....

Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed....

A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself....