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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
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Believe Diminish Equality Simplicity Time Wonder
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
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
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
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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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