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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Lucretius

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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