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The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

Lucretius

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

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