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From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Lucretius

There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
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
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
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
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
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

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