Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Anand Thakur
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
LUCRETIUSWhenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
LUCRETIUSWe notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
LUCRETIUSPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
LUCRETIUSOne thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
LUCRETIUSWere 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.
LUCRETIUSThe body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
LUCRETIUSNothing from nothing ever yet was born.
LUCRETIUSThe mask is torn off, while the reality remains
LUCRETIUSSuch crimes has superstition caused.
LUCRETIUSThe water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.
LUCRETIUSThus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then ‘tmust have forever its beyond.
LUCRETIUSAll things obey fixed laws.
LUCRETIUSSo 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.
LUCRETIUSThings stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
LUCRETIUSFear is the mother of all gods.
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