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Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods.

Lucretius

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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Anand Thakur
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can’t lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
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Existence God heavy Himself Stone
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
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
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
Bodies, again, Are partly primal germs of things, and partly Unions deriving from the primal germs.
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Body Germ
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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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
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
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
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Anand Thakur
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Anand Thakur
The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
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Divine Mistake Nature Power See Universe

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