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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

Lucretius

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
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Absence Blow Guilty Mindset
Fear is the mother of all 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
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
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Anand Thakur
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
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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Forever Total
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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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
Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
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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
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
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

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

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