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

Lucretius

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
LUCRETIUS

Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur

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

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