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Lucretius

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
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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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

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