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

Lucretius

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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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
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
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

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

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