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Do 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?

Lucretius

Do 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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur

Do 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?

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Do 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?

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