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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.

Lucretius

Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LUCRETIUS

Pleasant Struggle Wind
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View

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