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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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