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Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.

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