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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Lucretius

Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LUCRETIUS

Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUS

Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
We 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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUS

Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth

Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

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