Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUSNow come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSTo none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUSFear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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.
LUCRETIUSSo it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUSThe highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUSGently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSThe sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSIn the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUSAir, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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