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

Lucretius

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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.
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Await Built Old Way
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur

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

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