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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

Lucretius

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

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