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Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

Lucretius

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
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Live Man Past Scene
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
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.
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Anand Thakur
I own with reason: for, if men but knew Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong By some device unconquered to withstand Religions and the menacings of seers.
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Conquer Device Known Man Reason Religion
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
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net.
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Anand Thakur
Were 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.
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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
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
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
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Allow Creation Death Except Nature Price
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
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
All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Darkness Life One Liner Struggle

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

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