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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

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUS

Evil Leadership Religion
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUS

Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUS

Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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

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