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Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Lucretius

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
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
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

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