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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Lucretius

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
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
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
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

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