There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUSWhat once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUSEpicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUSFrom the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUSToo often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSThe dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LUCRETIUSTo ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUSIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUSDo we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSThe wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUSIt is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUSReligious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUSContinual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUSViolence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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