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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS

Drive Height Man Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Empty One Liner
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

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