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The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

Lucretius

From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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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
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
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
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.
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Avoid Easy Fools Knot Love Stand Way Yourself
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur

The sum total of all sums total is eternal.

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