Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSOnly religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUSViolence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSSweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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.
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