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Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

Lucretius

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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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
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
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
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Death Life Oneself
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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Anand Thakur
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
Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice
In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Time changes the nature of the whole world; Everything passes from one state to another And nothing stays like itself.

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