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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

Lucretius

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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.
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Anand Thakur

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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