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

Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUS

Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS

Change Nature State Stay Time World
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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
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.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
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

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