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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Lucretius

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS

Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUS

Fix Law Obedience One Liner
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUS

Food Man Poison
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Empty One Liner
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUS

Body Germ
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.
LUCRETIUS

Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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

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