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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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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
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
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
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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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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