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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Lucretius

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear 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.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

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