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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

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
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
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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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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