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Lucretius

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Globed from the atoms falling slow or swift I see the suns, I see the systems lift Their forms; and even the systems and the suns Shall go back slowly to the eternal drift.
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Fall Forever Myself See Slow System

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