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The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

Lucretius

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
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

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

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