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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.

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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 is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison

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