It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSThere is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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