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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison

Lucretius

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
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
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
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
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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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
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and 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
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison

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