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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUS

Heaven Level Victory
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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS

Forever Sum Total Universe
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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