Nature 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.
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Anand Thakur
Nature 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.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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.
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.
LUCRETIUSWhen bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSWhat is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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