Truths kindle light for truths.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSDeprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSAll things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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