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The sum of all sums is eternity.

Lucretius

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
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
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
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

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