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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

Lucretius

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
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
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
The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
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Anand Thakur
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
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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
There can be no centre in infinity.
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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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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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

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