Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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?
LUCRETIUSSo it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSThus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
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