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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.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
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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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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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Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur

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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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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