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How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

Lucretius

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth and death, I will go on Verses to build meet for thy rule of life, Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
LUCRETIUS

Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
LUCRETIUS

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.
LUCRETIUS

Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
LUCRETIUS

Earth Sink
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
LUCRETIUS

Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Fear is the mother of all gods.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUS

Food Oneself Poison Stand
Truths kindle light for truths.
LUCRETIUS

Light One Liner Truth

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

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