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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Lucretius

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
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
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

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