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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

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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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
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
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
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way

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