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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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
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
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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUS

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

Food Oneself Poison Stand
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Existence
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS

Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUS

Body Germ
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

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