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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

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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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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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.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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Change Nature State Stay Time World
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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur

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

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

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