Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through
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.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Nothing comes from nothing.
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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.
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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