And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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?
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSTo ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSFor there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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