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

Lucretius

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
Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another’s struggles.
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Land Seas Struggle Sweet Water
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 nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
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
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
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Drive Height Man Religion
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.
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Creation Law Life Necessary Rule Strong Time
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
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
Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which alone all things created are, And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.
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Anand Thakur
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
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
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Anand Thakur

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

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