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
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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There can be no centre in infinity.
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Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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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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