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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.

Lucretius

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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
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
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone

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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