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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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