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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Lucretius

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
LUCRETIUS

Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUS

Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Born Death Nature Repair
All things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUS

Fix Law Obedience One Liner
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Escape God People Scare
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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View

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