The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSSuch evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSThough the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUSForbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSIf God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUSFrom the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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