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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Lucretius

Nothing comes from nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Empty One Liner
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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?
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Existence
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

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