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Lucretius

Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
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
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition

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