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Lucretius

Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
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

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