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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Lucretius

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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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
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUS

Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

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