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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

Lucretius

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
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.
LUCRETIUS

Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LUCRETIUS

Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
LUCRETIUS

Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
LUCRETIUS

Food Man Poison
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUS

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

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.
LUCRETIUS

Await Built Old Way

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.

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