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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Lucretius

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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
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

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

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