The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSAll things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSThe wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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