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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

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.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ

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