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Lucretius

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
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
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
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
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
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

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

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