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Lucretius

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature

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