The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSGlobed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUSSome species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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