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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Lucretius

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
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
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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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
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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