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Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

Lucretius

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
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
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.

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