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

Lucretius

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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water

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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