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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

Lucretius

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUS

Existence God heavy Himself Stone
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS

Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

Beyond Forever Limitation Path
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
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

Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.

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