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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Lucretius

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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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 sum of all sums is eternity.
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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

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