From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSI own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUSWhenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSIf the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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