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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Lucretius

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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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
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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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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
The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).
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Forever Sum Total Universe
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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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
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

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