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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

Lucretius

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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
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

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

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