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Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
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

Pleasant Struggle Wind
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.
LUCRETIUS

Await Built Old Way
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS

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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Existence

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