Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSIn the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSFear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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