Nothing comes from nothing.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSBy protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSSo potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSFor 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.
LUCRETIUSHow wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUSSome 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.
LUCRETIUSSo much wrong could religion induce.
LUCRETIUSWhat can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUSA falling drop at last will carve a stone.
LUCRETIUSIt’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUSThose 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.
LUCRETIUSWe in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUSThere is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
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