If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSThus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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