One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSTo ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSThe greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSThe drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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