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.
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.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSNo single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSAll nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
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