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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

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
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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 mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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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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