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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUS

Existence God heavy Himself Stone
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.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
LUCRETIUS

Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUS

Action Evil Religion

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