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It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

Lucretius

Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS

Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.

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