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Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Lucretius

There can be no centre in infinity.
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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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong

Continual dropping wears away a stone.

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