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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.

Lucretius

Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe

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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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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