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

Lucretius

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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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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
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

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