O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSFor out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSThe old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSThose things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSSuch are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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