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One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

Lucretius

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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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