There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUSNever trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSTears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUSThe first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUSLucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUSNothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSHow is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUSTruths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUSNothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUSAll things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUSViolence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUSFear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUSIf 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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