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

Lucretius

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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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