O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSAll nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSGlobed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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