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

Lucretius

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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
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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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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