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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Lucretius

Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

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