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

Lucretius

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
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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

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