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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.

Lucretius

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
LUCRETIUS

Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
LUCRETIUS

Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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
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
Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air’s embrace.
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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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.

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