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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

Lucretius

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
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
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

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