For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSNo matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUSWere a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSFor thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUS