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Lucretius

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
LUCRETIUS

Creation Existence
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
There can be no centre in infinity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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