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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.

Lucretius

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
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion

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