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All things obey fixed laws.

Lucretius

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
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Pleasant Struggle Wind
One Man’s food is another Man’s Poison
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Food Man Poison
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.
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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
The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
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
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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
All things obey fixed laws.
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Fix Law Obedience One Liner
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
These the senses we trust, first, last, and always.
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Anand Thakur
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
Truths kindle light for truths.
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Light One Liner Truth
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur

All things obey fixed laws.

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