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

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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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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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