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It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

Lucretius

Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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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
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

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