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

Lucretius

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
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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUS

Crime Reason Superstition
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
LUCRETIUS

Body Germ
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Await Built Old Way
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS

Atheist Creation Earth Fear God

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