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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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

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