Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSTherefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSIf one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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