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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.

Lucretius

Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUS

Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUS

Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread

When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.

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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.

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