From Lucretius: “For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we 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.”
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Quote of the day 10/11/23
From Lucretius: “All things keep on in everlasting motion,Out of the infinite come the particles,Speeding above, below, in endless dance.”
Quote of the day 10/10/23
From Lucretius: “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Quote of the day 08/22/23
From Lucretius: “Trees don’t live in the sky, and clouds don’t swim In the salt seas, and fish don’t leap in wheatfields, Blood isn’t found in wood, nor sap in rocks. By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows Submits to limit and restrictions.”