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Lucretius

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
LUCRETIUS

Live Man Past Scene
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS

Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUS

Action Evil Religion
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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