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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
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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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

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