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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

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
LUCRETIUS

Evil Flow Religion
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUS

Feed Sky Stars
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUS

Crime Reason Superstition
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
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
LUCRETIUS

Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple

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.

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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.

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