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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.

Lucretius

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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur

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