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True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Lucretius

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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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
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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
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
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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

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