Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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