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

Lucretius

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
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
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone

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

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