Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSFor fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSYou alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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