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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

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?
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
LUCRETIUS

Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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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.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur

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

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