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Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.

Lucretius

Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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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
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
It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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Anand Thakur
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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Anand Thakur
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
Fear is the mother of all gods … Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
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
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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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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