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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

Lucretius

Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
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
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

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