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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.
LUCRETIUS

Evil Leadership Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
LUCRETIUS

Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Existence
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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