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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

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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUS

Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUS

Fix Law Obedience One Liner
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Sink
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Escape God People Scare
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUS

Existence God heavy Himself Stone

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