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Lucretius

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.
LUCRETIUS

Await Built Old Way
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
LUCRETIUS

Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
LUCRETIUS

Drive Height Man Religion
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.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

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