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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
• From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
• At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The…
• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
• From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
• The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
• Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot…

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