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

Lucretius

All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
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

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

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