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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
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
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion

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