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The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Lucretius

Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
All things around, convulsed with violent thunder, seem to tremble, and the mighty walls of the capacious world appear at once to have started and burst asunder.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
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
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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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.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
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
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

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

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