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Lucretius

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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
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
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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