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It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Lucretius

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
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
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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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
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
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
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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 wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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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

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

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