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The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

Lucretius

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
LUCRETIUS

Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUS

Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUS

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
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.
LUCRETIUS

Pleasant Struggle Wind

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