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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Lucretius

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
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
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
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

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

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