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One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison

Lucretius

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
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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Anand Thakur
All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.
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Action Difficult Task Willing Yourself
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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Anand Thakur
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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
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
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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