For 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.
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Anand Thakur
For 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.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSAll nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSThere can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUSYet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSBodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUSThus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSFalling drops will at last wear away stone.
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