Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSMeantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUSSo it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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