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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

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
The sum of all sums is eternity.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
LUCRETIUS

Death Life Oneself
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUS

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.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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.
LUCRETIUS

Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

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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