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Life is one long struggle in the dark.

Lucretius

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

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?
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
LUCRETIUS

Forever Sum Total Universe
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
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
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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

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