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Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur

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