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A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

Lucretius

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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
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
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
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Blind Man Mindset Understand
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet 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

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.

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