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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Sink
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS

Forever Sum Total Universe
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUS

Blind Man Mindset Understand
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

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