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What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
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
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur

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