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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.

Lucretius

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUS

Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System

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