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Fear is the mother of all gods.

Lucretius

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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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Pleasant Struggle Wind
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
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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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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur

Fear is the mother of all gods.

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