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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Lucretius

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUS

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

Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

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