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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 whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
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
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
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
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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
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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice

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

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