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The sum of all sums is eternity.

Lucretius

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
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
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.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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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

The sum of all sums is eternity.

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