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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

Lucretius

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
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
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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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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 notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

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