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

Lucretius

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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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
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
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

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

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