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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.

Lucretius

It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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.
LUCRETIUS

Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
LUCRETIUS

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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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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