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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Lucretius

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
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
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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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

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Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

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