Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSGlobed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUSThe highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSFrom the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUSLife is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSViolence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSThe greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSThe sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUSAnd life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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