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

Lucretius

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength

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