Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSYou may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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