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To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Lucretius

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
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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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUS

Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUS

Mindset Pity Power True 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?
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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.
LUCRETIUS

Await Built Old Way

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

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