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From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Lucretius

Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.
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Body Empty Move Nature Sustain
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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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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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur

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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