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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius

There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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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