One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
LUCRETIUSDeprived 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.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSYou may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSAll things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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