It 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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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUSTime changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSThere is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSThe mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUSNot they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSOne Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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.
LUCRETIUSThe wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSMeantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSHuman life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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