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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

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUS

Forever Total
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

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

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