Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUSAll things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSMen are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSAll things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSDeprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSIt is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSTrue piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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