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

Lucretius

Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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 once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur

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