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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Lucretius

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.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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