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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

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