It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSThe highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSRest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSSo, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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