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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

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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
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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
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
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
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God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
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
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner

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

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