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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

Lucretius

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur

Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

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