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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
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
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
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

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