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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Lucretius

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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