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Lucretius

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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself

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