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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

Lucretius

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
LUCRETIUS

Heaven Level Victory
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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
All life is a struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.

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