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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

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUS

Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS

Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUS

Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
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
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS

Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

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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