All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSHow many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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 sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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.
LUCRETIUSSuch evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSThe wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSVictory puts us on a level with heaven.
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.
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