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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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

Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
LUCRETIUS

Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Such crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUS

Crime Reason Superstition
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
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
LUCRETIUS

Existence God heavy Himself Stone
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LUCRETIUS

Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
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

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

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