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And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

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