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Lucretius

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

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