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The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Lucretius

Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Falling drops will at last wear away stone.
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Anand Thakur
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

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