All things obey fixed laws.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSThe greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSThere is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSNo single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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?
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