The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
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.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSTis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSNature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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