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

Lucretius

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur

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

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