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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUS

Explanation Myself Wind
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

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.
LUCRETIUS

Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
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.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUS

Body Decay Mindset Strength

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