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No matter how difficult a task may look.. Persistence and steady action will get you through.

Lucretius

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
There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
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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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Anand Thakur
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off, reality remains.
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Anand Thakur
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
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
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Anand Thakur
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion

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