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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

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.
LUCRETIUS

Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion

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