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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Lucretius

So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand

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