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There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Lucretius

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

Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

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