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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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?
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
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.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

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