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

Lucretius

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
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
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur

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

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