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O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Lucretius

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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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
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

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