If 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?
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Anand Thakur
If 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?
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSMen conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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