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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

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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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