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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

Lucretius

There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
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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Await Built Old Way
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

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