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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.

Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View

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