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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Lucretius

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

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