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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

Lucretius

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.

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