What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSIt is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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