Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSIf 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?
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSThe greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSSo, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUSWere a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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.
LUCRETIUSContinual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSSome species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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