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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

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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.

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