Truths kindle light for truths.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.
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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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Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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