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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Lucretius

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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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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
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
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

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