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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison

Lucretius

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
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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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
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
There is so much wrong with the world.
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World Wrong
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.
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Admire Fools Hide Love See Sound Truth Verse
There is no place in nature for extinction.
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
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
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
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

One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison

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