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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

Lucretius

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Epicurus whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.
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Genius Human Kind Light Rise Stars Sun
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
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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
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.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.
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Anand Thakur
For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
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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
Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
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Anand Thakur

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

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