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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.

Lucretius

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

Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
LUCRETIUS

Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion

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