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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Lucretius

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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
LUCRETIUS

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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

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