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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Lucretius

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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