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Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

Lucretius

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
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
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
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence

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