And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSThus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSUnder what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
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