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Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

Lucretius

Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
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
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.

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