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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Lucretius

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUS

Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
LUCRETIUS

Forever Total
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
LUCRETIUS

Change Nature State Stay Time World

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