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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Lucretius

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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