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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

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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
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
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
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
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur

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

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