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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

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