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Lucretius

How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
How is it that the sky feeds the stars?
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Feed Sky Stars
Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.
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Anand Thakur
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
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Anand Thakur
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
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Man Prophet See Strength Term Trouble
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
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
The sum total of all sums total is eternal.
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Forever Total
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

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