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

Lucretius

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
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path

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