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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.

Lucretius

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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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
Nothing comes from nothing.
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Empty One Liner
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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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
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
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Beyond Forever Limitation Path
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
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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