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The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

Lucretius

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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
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
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

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