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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.

Lucretius

There is no place in nature for extinction.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUS

Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS

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.

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