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We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Lucretius

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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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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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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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