What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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.
LUCRETIUSAll life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSOur life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSUnder what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
LUCRETIUSO goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSWhat came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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