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Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

Lucretius

Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
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
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
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
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
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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur

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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