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Lucretius

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
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
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur

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