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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Lucretius

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Anand Thakur
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Divine Dominant Fear Land Sky Wisdom Work
The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.
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Greatness Pleasant Run Sea View
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Anand Thakur
Nature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
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Allow Collapse Destruction Enter Nature
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
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Anand Thakur
There can be no centre in infinity.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Drops Fall Power Stone
Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions… How many evils has religion caused?
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Action Crime Often Past Reason Religion Time
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

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