Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
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.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSThe highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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