We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSFor out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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