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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

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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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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