Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
LUCRETIUSDeath is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUSThese the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUSLook at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSWe, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSNo fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUSWe plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUSThe nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSMother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSSome species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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