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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

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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
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

Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUS

Heaven Level Victory
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUS

Blind Man Mindset Understand
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS

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.

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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.

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