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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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.
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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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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