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

Lucretius

Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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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
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur

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

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

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