These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSIf men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSWe cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUSTis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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