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Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Lucretius

Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

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