The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSRest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSWhenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSThus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSTis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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