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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
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
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion

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