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Lucretius

Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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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
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time

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