The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSNow come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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.
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.
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