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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

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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition

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