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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

Lucretius

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion

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