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We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

Lucretius

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
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

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

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