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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Lucretius

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.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
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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Anand Thakur

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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