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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

Lucretius

Continual dropping wears away a stone.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
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
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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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
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
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Drops Fall Hole Rain Stone
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.
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Amongst Arise Bitter Flower Fountain Spread
Human life lay foul before men’s eyes, crushed to the dust beneath religion’s weight.
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Anand Thakur
Only religion can lead to such evil.
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Evil Leadership Religion
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.
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Anand Thakur
For out of doubt In these affairs ’tis each man’s will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.
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Anand Thakur
Victory puts us on a level with heaven.
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Heaven Level Victory
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

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