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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

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
LUCRETIUS

Explanation Myself Wind
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone

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.

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