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Lucretius

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

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