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

Lucretius

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
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
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
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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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself

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