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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Lucretius

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUS

Heaven Level Victory

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