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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
LUCRETIUS

Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
LUCRETIUS

World Wrong
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUS

Crime Reason Superstition
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
LUCRETIUS

Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

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