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Lucretius

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
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
Rest, brother, rest. Have you done ill or well Rest, rest, There is no God, no gods who dwell Crowned with avenging righteousness on high Nor frowning ministers of their hate in hell.
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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
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
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.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone

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