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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.

Lucretius

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.

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