Truths kindle light for truths.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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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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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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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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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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