Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSIt is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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