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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
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
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

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