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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
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
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
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
The sum of all sums is eternity.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur

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