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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Lucretius

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUS

Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUS

Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
LUCRETIUS

Body Decay Mindset Strength
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUS

Forever Total
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
LUCRETIUS

Feed Sky Stars
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS

Drive Height Man Religion

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