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Lucretius

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
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?
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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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.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

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