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Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.

Lucretius

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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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
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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
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
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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
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

Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.

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