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Lucretius

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?
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
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.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur

Truths kindle light for truths.

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