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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

Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Empty One Liner
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
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
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
LUCRETIUS

Blind Man Mindset Understand
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

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

Food Oneself Poison Stand
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUS

Fix Law Obedience One Liner
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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.

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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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