Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Truths kindle light for truths.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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