We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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