Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSIt is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUSOut beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
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.
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.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSConstant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSConfess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThere is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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