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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

Lucretius

There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

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