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

Lucretius

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
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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Anand Thakur
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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself

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