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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Those vestiges of natures left behind Which reason cannot quite expel from us Are still so slight that naught prevents a man From living a life even worthy of the gods.
LUCRETIUS

God Man Nature Prevent Quite Reason Worthy
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
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
Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.
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Fake Fight Judgement Reason Yourself
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.
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Anand Thakur
Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Allow Born Death Nature Repair
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
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Anand Thakur
Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
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Earth Fix Guard Kind Life Rain Season
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What’s food for one is poison for another.
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Food Oneself Poison Stand
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
LUCRETIUS

Anand Thakur

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

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