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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.

Lucretius

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
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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth

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